[Chrysler300] Re:Legendary (literally) Seat Covers for C (aka 300 equivalent of OJ's

[RAKFAR@xxxxxxx]

Hello 300'ly to all!
Just compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit  expensive ones) to augment 
Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally  experienced. The saga in progress is 
my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new  Legendary front and rear seat covers. This 
and new bumpers (another story...stay  tuned) are the last items on my list 
of fine tuning to get my C where I want her  (perfection effort that I'm 
seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so  read on). December 4, 2007 the 
decision is made to purchase new seat covers when  I receive the Legendary 
Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). 
I call and put the order in while looking at their  website. What a 
compliment..Just compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit  expensive ones) to augment 
Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally  experienced. The saga in progress 
is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new  Legendary front and rear seat covers. 
This and new bumpers (another story...stay  tuned) are the last items on my list 
of fine tuning to get my C where I want her  (perfection effort that I'm 
seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so  read on). December 4, 2007 
the decision is made to purchase new seat covers when  I receive the Legendary 
Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and free  shipping! (how 
prophetic). I call and put the order in while looking at their  website. What a 
compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C 
hardtop is my existing ones made by Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move 
forward. Right..... with several backsteps and back flips  and bellyflops in 
between. Of course plunking down the $2212 was acceptable  since I saved the 
shipping and about $300 to boot (majic number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 
weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays dreaming about your  new seat covers. Dewy 
eyed mysticism set in thinking that this no-brainer new  upgrade will be so 
beautiful and hassle-free since it only involves removing my  seats and taking 
them 2 miles down the road to the upholstery shop and  presto...the only 
concern will be how soon I can get them back iJust compiling a bunch of vignettes 
(albeit  expensive ones) to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All 
personally  experienced. The saga in progress is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new  
Legendary front and rear seat covers. This and new bumpers (another story...stay 
 tuned) are the last items on my list of fine tuning to get my C where I want 
her  (perfection effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all worth the 
hastle...so  read on). December 4, 2007 the decision is made to purchase new seat 
covers when  I receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount special...10% 
off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the order in while 
looking at their  website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo 
demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing ones made by 
Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with several backsteps 
and back flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking down the $2212 
was acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to boot (majic 
number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays 
dreaming about your  new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in thinking that 
this no-brainer new  upgrade will be so beautiful and hassle-free since it only 
involves removing my  seats and taking them 2 miles dowJust compiling a bunch 
of vignettes (albeit  expensive ones) to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. 
All personally  experienced. The saga in progress is my Christmas treat to 
Mopsy of new  Legendary front and rear seat covers. This and new bumpers (another 
story...stay  tuned) are the last items on my list of fine tuning to get my C 
where I want her  (perfection effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all 
worth the hastle...so  read on). December 4, 2007 the decision is made to 
purchase new seat covers when  I receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount 
special...10% off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the order 
in while looking at their  website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat 
photo demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing ones 
made by Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with 
several backsteps and back flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking 
down the $2212 was acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to boot 
(majic number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy the 
holidays dreaming about your  new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in 
thinking that this no-brainer neJust compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit  
expensive ones) to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally  
experienced. The saga in progress is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new  Legendary front 
and rear seat covers. This and new bumpers (another story...stay  tuned) are 
the last items on my list of fine tuning to get my C where I want her  
(perfection effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so  read 
on). December 4, 2007 the decision is made to purchase new seat covers when  
I receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and free  
shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the order in while looking at their 
 website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo demonstrating THEIR 
 rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing ones made by Goers! OK, lets 
get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with several backsteps and back 
flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking down the $2212 was 
acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to boot (majic number that 300).  
"You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays dreaming about 
your  new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in thinking that this no-brainer 
new  upgrade will be so beautiful and hassle-free since it only involves 
removing my  seats and taking them 2 miles down the road to the upholstery shop and 
 presto...the only concern will be how soon I can get them back in the car 
for  spring car shows! I was under the impression that in early February I would 
have  the seat covers so advertised my old ones on a Saturday afternoon in 
January at  which time they sold in 10 minutes to the first buyer (e-mail 
response wasn't  quick enough so he called me via probably iridion satellite phone 
before I  received his e-mail. SOLD!! Three other club members were in line to 
purchase.  This gave me that "loving feeling" that all was right and this was 
my final  reward for the trials and tribulations with Mopsy the past 5 yeras. 
Yeah, and if  a pig could fly! Mid-Febru ary the phone calls to Legendary 
start on my part.  "Just a slight delay in that the material is 
back-ordered"<WBR>. Wait a  minute.....you mean that you dudes don't even have the material yet? 
It's been  10.5 weeks. Of course the Discover Card bill was already paid, so 
that was some  consolation. End of February I call them, after I've been 
repeatedly told that  they will call me when they are completed for shipment. The 
next call was  precious, "Oh yes, we shipped them to you yesterday!" Where? You 
were going to  call me for the final shipping adress? Pregnant 
pause....believe me, as an  obstetrician tJust compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit  
expensive ones) to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally  
experienced. The saga in progress is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new  Legendary front 
and rear seat covers. This and new bumpers (another story...stay 0  am 
(another 300 epiphany?) it dawns on me to just ship the seat frames to  Legendary 
and let them custom fit OJ's gloves with the correct padding and  burlap, 
cotton, whatever. While they are at it why not bead blast the frames and  paint them 
the correct black. The money meter starts turning again. I call  Legendary 
the first thing in the morning and they think it is the only way to go  and so 
does my upholsterer. Well Jerry goes and gets the frames, padding ,etc.  from 
the upholsterer and boxes up the seats. Try shipping seat frames! Price  quotes 
go from $1300 to $1600 for Yellow freight or UPS freight and of course  the 
nearest freight depot is in Texas! I call Legendary and their shipping guy  
says no problem, "I just shipped a crate weighing about a ton of seat material  
to Key West for under $600. Just give me the weight of each box and the  
dimensions and I'll issue a pick up tag for the body shop to have them picked up  
tomorrow". Great! Things are looking like the plan is coming together. The one  
way shipping comes to $340, a bargain and I don't have to load up the truck 
and  go to Texas! Four pick up numbers are issued through Legendary via FedEx to 
be  picked up the Friday after Easter. FedEx comes by and states they only 
have one  label, pick up one box and they are gone! I get a call from the body 
shop that 3  boxes of seat frames remain. "What to do?" Legendary gets a speed 
dial from me  just before they close and they throw a fit that the FedEx guy 
didn't read the  tag for the four box numbers. Thanks guys, I'm paying for all 
this grief and get  caught in the middle. FedEx tells the body shop TTFN until 
the following  Tuesday! Legendary pulls strings and the FedEx dudes show up 
on Monday to get  the boxes. Miraculously all 4 show up at the same time to 
Legendary. Meanwhile  Legendary sends me back my original covers, which I put in 
a Legendary box  (poetic justice) and ship to their new owner along with a 
bicycle box full of  padding, burlap, kitchen towels, cardboard and whatever else 
were stuffed in  those seats, because we all know that a man's hand can't fit 
in OJ's glove so  arriva d'arce! Trying to ship these were not easy but this 
story is getting a  liittle long. Just say for $271 the pads, etc. and seat 
covers arrived safely to  their new owner. So now I've got all my seats in the 
hands of Legendary. A phone  call to Wayne Graefen confirmed that this was the 
RIGHT thing to do and I can  sleep on it. Appare ntly it has been known that 
Goers seat covers were prone to  dimensional deviations. Isn't that a fact. 
Well, Wayne's word is the Good House  Keeping Seal of Approval in my book and 
back to sweet dreams of driving Mopsy  with seats again and not propped on a foot 
stool hanging on to the wheel for  dear life. Well, Legendary has the seats 
for now 3 weeks and I'm told that they  are having to redo them since 
dimensionally the were way off and that they have  put 26 hours of work into the 
pads,etc. but are only charging me half that time  since they are having to make new 
templates for C seats!! Imagine that. So by  mid month they should be ready 
to ship. My upholsterer will assemble the front  seat backs to bottom seat and 
it will be done. $1134 more to Legendary  (including return shipping....0  am 
(another 300 epiphany?) it dawns on me to just ship the seat frames to  
Legendary and let them custom fit OJ's gloves with the correct padding and  burlap, 
cotton, whatever. While they are at it why not bead blast the frames and  
paint them the correct black. The money meter starts turning again. I call  
Legendary the first thing in the morning and they think it is the only way to go  
and so does my upholsterer. Well Jerry goes and gets the frames, padding ,etc. 


Dude, this is unreadable. TRY USING PARAGRAPHS.
 
300F'ly,
Roger Karlson



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